circumjacence

A beautiful acoustic indy / pop song that will stay stuck in your head for the rest of the day, or longer. This track is from “Ask Us No Questions And We’ll Tell You No Lies”, an older release (2004) on Sundays in Spring.

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Complete release at Archive.org.

My good friend BETA™ and musical partner in crime for many years is joining the tiny crew here at circumjacence.com.

He’ll be starting out with reviews of a few tracks from 8bit Betty’s amazing release “too bleep to blop” on Hippocamp.  Owen picked the tracks (all of which have been in HEAVY rotation on his ipod).

Motionfield starts out this track with a warm and inviting electronic space that gives way to an ambient texture based section. Released on Thinner / Autoplate.

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The second Halloween darkpsy track from “V.A. Asylum Of Darkness”: “House of Horror” by the Indian artist White Wizard.

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In honor of Halloween, I’ve decided to post two darkpsy tracks from the “V.A. Asylum Of Darkness” released by Triplag. The first is “Evil Nightmare” by the Russian artist Subdevil — I like a title (and track) that gets right to the point.

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Time-stretched beats and dark textures.

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This week I’ve been listening to the “Offline EP” by Leon Somov and Jazzu quite a bit. If I had to pigeonhole it, I guess I’d call it triphop, but I dislike that term, and it doesn’t really do the release justice.

I don’t have a particular set of favorite tracks reviewed yet (and thus nothing for the playlist or podcast yet). I will eventually, but in the meantime you can get ahead of me and download the EP from Sutemos at:

http://www.sutemos.net/en/player;gid,19

Starting out with pure cuts and beats, 3Tronik eventually lets some pianos and string peek through, weaving a line between multiple moods and textures. Released on Sutemos.

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A simple melancholy acoustic / double-tracked vocal piece that is perfect listening either for watching the greening of spring or the falling of leaves in fall. Released on Sundays in Spring.

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Rhodes(ish) piano, guitar harmony, filtered beats, harmonica, spoken word samples, and vocals by Jonas Hult. This is my final review from “All Becomes Music”, but the whole release is well worth a trip to Archive.org, or to the Sutemos label’s site.

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Complete release at Archive.org.